Just reaching out to everyone to remind then that there is a going to be meet and greet as well as tours of the food forest, live music, and food in the afternoon following the work day.

I have been working with Liz and Ally to try to help set this up and one thing they have requested is any volunteers to help set up after the work day. It will be very easy including helping setting up a generator some beer and tables as well as working a table to represent the Festival Beach Community Garden. Times when they would need most assistance would be from 1 o’clock to 3 o’clock. And then for breakdown around sunset.

Please spread the word to anyone about this event as we want as many people to be there to help support the Food Forest as it celebrates its one-year anniversary.

The Festival Beach Food Forest is a volunteer-managed, 3/4-acre edible landscape on public park land. Our mission is to grow edible forest gardens on public lands to nourish, educate, and inspire. We are nearing our one-year groundbreaking anniversary and need help to plant HUNDREDS of perennial plants throughout the food forest on It’s My Park Day. This park will create public access to free herbs, medicines and healthy foods for years to come. After planting, we’ll celebrate together with music, festivities and an East Feast potluck.

We’ll be having a POTLUCK party. Everyone is invited to bring a donation or something to share. There will be local libations and you can also BYOB. Suggested items to bring are: BBQ, watermelon, fruits / fruit salad, pastas, caseroles, salads, chips, salsas, dips. Food Forest folks are bringing the rice and beans.

The East Feast Potluck Party is brought to you by the Festival Beach Food Forest (FBFF) & Festival Beach Community Garden (FBCG)

** More info about the Intro Food Forest Stewards training: We need volunteers to help us water the new plantings every-other-day for the next three weeks. If you’d like to help and learn the basics of site maintenance and watering at the food forest, please join us for this 30-minute crash course. For questions &/or RSVP: message us by Facebook or at contact@festivalbeach.org
*** If you would like to set up a table for your organization, please let us know! Msg by Facebook or contact@festivalbeach.org

We have our monthly workday this Saturday October 8th from 8 am to 11 am. We have a bunch of tasks to work on in our communal areas. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow gardeners and volunteers, complete your work hours for the month, and support the garden by buying veggie transplants and perennials at the plant sale.

The next workday is this Saturday with the Outreach/Education Team. Tasks include:

mowing around habitat areas (prior to the workday)

weeding

pruning

mulching

Work will be done in the perennial and asparagus beds. Please bring paper yard bags to help dispose of stickers and nut grass.

All volunteers need to wear long sleeves (thin/breatheable), closed toe shoes and a hat and bring a water bottle.

A word from the Compost Team: All weeds, EXCEPT STICKERS AND NUT GRASS, go on the weed compost pile north of the shed. Please put weeds on top of the pile, rather than on the outside edges. This helps keep the pile from sprawling outwards. Thanks.

With labor provided by the City of Austin PARD, and funding by FBCG, we were able to pave and improve the accessibility to a gardening bed in section A. A special thank you to all and also to Felix Padron, the construction chief for PARD.